Q: I have partitioned the HD with MS Fdisk. I tried to see if Linux could see that it is not formatted or FAT32. Both tries I got the same message. Any idea what this means?
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Re:Did you try dmesg to check if the kernel detected the disk?
Have you tried fdisk -L?
Have you tried fdisk /dev/hdd?
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Re:DiskDrake allows me to format or set mount points. In the past, I have been able to do either or both. HOwever, the problem HD in question, does not even show up. I edited the etc/fstab files to try to mount the drive on boot-up. At first I got that "not a block device" message. After I switched the HD's to different channels, I was getting "mnt/win_c3 does not exist" message. However, that was unformatted, so that may or may not be the problem; maybe one of you guys know. I guess I wont know until I try again. I'll try all this stuff out again when I have time. Thanks for the patience guys, still slowly learning Linux.
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Re:Diskdrake is mandrake's GUI disk partitioning/formatting software. Its quite nice actually.
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<< << I tried to see if linux could see it unformatted >>
well that definitely wont work
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I was hoping this path would allow me to format the partition within linux, but it would not even recognize the partition. I was using diskdrake btw. I'll try your method later when I have time to boot into linux…thanks again. >>
You dont need to mount it to format it. Whats diskdrake? 
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Re:<< << I tried to see if linux could see it unformatted >>
well that definitely wont work
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I was hoping this path would allow me to format the partition within linux, but it would not even recognize the partition. I was using diskdrake btw. I'll try your method later when I have time to boot into linux…thanks again.
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Re:<< I tried to see if linux could see it unformatted >>
well that definitely wont work
try doing "cat /proc/partitions", that will give you an idea of what it "thinks" is on your hard drive partition-wise…hdd5 should be the first logical drive in the extended partition of the slave drive on your secondary controller.
try saying that 5 times fast
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Re:is it formatted or just a blank dos partition? what do you want to do with the partition?
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Re:here is part of my etc/fstab file containing the hard disk info:
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hdd5 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/win_c2 vfat defaults 0 0
hda5 and hdc5 load fine. hdd5 get the "not a block device" error. hdd5 is the 2nd device on my 2nd channel. Hope that makes sense….thanks
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Re:Are you sure you have the correct device (slave secondary controller I think) and partition number?
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